After college, Heck Prigusivac returns to his hometown in Montana to settle some affairs before moving to Seattle to teach Latin. However, his plans are complicated by his family's dark past: his father was executed for murder, and his brother is on death row. Despite this, Heck takes a job as a prison "closer" and finds himself torn between his loyalty to his brother and his growing feelings for Dori, Chick's high school girlfriend who is also on death row.
Love Comes to the Executioner
In a complex prison setting, a web of tangled relationships unfolds as a new executioner becomes entangled with his brother's former lover, who is also an inmate, and begins a romance that complicates his own moral compass.
